low-key Oakland pancakes with grandma tomorrow - HELP!

Am sure that someone here knows just the place in Oakland for my mom to take my 3 year old son for pancakes/breakfast tomorrow morning (Saturday 3/15). The deal is that they are dropping me off at a conference at Castlemont High School tomorrow morning and are then going to Chabot Space and Science Center.

They want to get breakfast after dropping me off. All they need is clean, decent, no lines, and somewhere not too far from Castlemont and/or Chabot.

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